The "AFS" adapter is a loopback adapter. It has no Internet access because it isn't a network on which there is a router.
On 9/12/2011 5:25 PM, John Tang Boyland wrote: > I'm embarrassed to say that after two years of trying to get students to > successfully install OpenAFS on Windows, I find that one of the > diagnostics I was using is irrelevant. When a student installed OpenAFS > but didn't get things to work, since I don't know Windows at all, > I would try to wander around the myriad pages in the explorer. > > I stumbled on the "Network and Sharing Center" and sure enough > AFS would be listed as an "Unidentified Network" and that > it had "No network access". I would click on "AFS" and get > an AFS status page that shows IPv4 connectivity: No network access > and activity: XXX packets sent and 0 received. > > We would try various magic incantations to get AFS to work. > If they worked (i.e. we could go to \\afs\cs.uwm.edu in the Explorer > window), the student would be happy and go off. And I wouldn't > see the computer again. > > Finally someone got me my own computer to experiment with and > (surprise surpise) even when AFS is working just fine, the Network > and Sharing center STILL says that AFS has no network access. > So, a view that I thought would help with diagnosis is worthless. > > Regards, > John > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
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